Art by Fuzzy

Pottery, Photography, Design - Brandon "Fuzzy" Schwartz

West Noble Invite Shirts

Let the mass update begin…  (stay tuned for a steady stream of updates about what I’ve kept myself busy with the last few months.)

I was asked to do a shirt design for the West Noble Cross Country Invitational a few months back.  I can’t take credit for the color choice.  I designed it in black and white and then the fine folks at Shepherd’s Shirt Shack did the hard part – choosing a color and printing the shirts.  I didn’t get to take a picture of an actual shirt so the picture below is the black and white file turned color.  In fact those might not even be the right colors but it should be close enough to give you the right idea…

Shirt design for the 2009 West Noble Invitational

Shirt design for the 2009 West Noble Invitational

Finished Pottery (3 months later)

Happy Thanksgiving!

I decided to finally put up some pictures of the ceramic ware that I finished a couple months ago.  (See the bisque fired pots).  I got around to taking some photos a week or two ago using my homemade photo studio.  I shot everything really quick so some of the pictures aren’t exactly outstanding….  But on with the show!

I have lofty hopes of giving some sort of recap on the past few months in which I have been doing almost everything except updating the blog….  Maybe by Christmas.

Pottery Supplies and the End Of Summer

Pottery Supplies

Pottery Supplies

I love pottery supply yard sales!  I made a trip up to Michigan on Thursday to see my family and check out a yard sale at Crossroads Pottery.  They didn’t have the kiln shelf that I needed and I didn’t get all the posts that I wanted but I got a lot of new stuff to experiment with.  I picked up some Laguna clay and a few random dry powders.  I also got a decent scale ($3!) to replace the cheap plastic Walmart kitchen scale which was probably $5.

Bad news: this is officially my last day of summer break.  Good news: The kiln is firing as I’m typing this. [Read more…]

Ready To Do Some Glazing

Bisque wares ready for glaze

Bisque wares ready for glaze

Amaco warm brown stoneware.  Mostly wheel thrown.  Mugs, bowls, jugs, etc.

As you can probably tell by the picture there is a lot of glazing to do in my near future.  Something that you might be able to infer: the new outlet that my brother installed didn’t catch on fire or melt like the old one so the first firing after Operation Upgrade was a success.  The cord to the kiln got a little warm but I turned the fan on and everything went well.  It’s a good thing because my brother (and his wife) are in Beijing getting settled in to their apartment and getting “orientated” to do some teaching.

Well, I better get to work.